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0 pointspjmlp6y ago0 comments

The same way that Dropbox, Microsoft and plenty of other companies do.

You use a JNI generator and follow the so called hamburger architecture.

Microsoft and Dropbox have several sessions done at CppCon.

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IshKebab6y ago· 1 in thread

You're going to have to provide a link because "hamburger architecture" returns no relevant search results and I still don't know how you mean to make an Android GUI in C++. Unless you mean you write your core logic in C++ and your GUI with Java and link them via JNI?

That still means you have to write the GUI again for every platform, and you still have to use the Android API which is a very awkward system to make GUIs with (animation is extremely difficult, Activity and Fragment lifecycles are very complicated, etc).

pjmlpOP6y ago

I did provide the information for it, Dropbox and Microsoft talks at CppCon, easy with some Google fu.

CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part I"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HROqnw-nf4

CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part II"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMoRu5yrVc

CppCon 2015: Jacob Potter & Andrew Twyman “Bridging Languages Cross-Platform..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-k-axW2utc

CppCon 2017: Stephen Spann “Cross-Platform Apps with Dropbox’s Djinni...”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssqhz_1pPI4

CppCon 2014: T. Grue & S. Kabbes "A Deep Dive into 2 Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Written in C++"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AZMEm3rZ2Y

Naturally the native UI has to be used.

Are we talking about having a good user experience here, or having the easy lazy path for the developer?

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